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Loving someone is a loss of freedom - but one doesn't think of it as loss because one gains so much else.

Erica Jong

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Erica Jong
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 26
Author
Feminist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
New York City
New York
Erica Mann Jong
Someone
Much
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Gains
Thinking
Loving
Loss
Freedom
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Else

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Exceptional people are often called crazy by the ordinary world.
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There is nothing fiercer than a failed artist. The energy remains, but, having no outlet, it implodes in a great black fart of rage which smokes up all the inner windows of the soul. Horrible as successful artists often are, there is nothing crueler or more vain than a failed artist.
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Most sex is not really intimate.
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Writers are doubters, compulsives, self-flagellants. The torture only stops for brief moments.
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Feminism is teaching. I've gotten a lot of pleasure pushing younger writers that I've met and worked with.
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Hate generalizes love is particular.
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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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Murky language means someone wants to pick your pocket.
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As a reader, I want a book to kidnap me into its world. Its world must make my so-called real world seem flimsy. Its world must lure me to return. When I close the book, I should feel bereft.
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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
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I think the Jews are an amazing group of people and their survival is amazing.
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... what is great poetry, after all, but the continuation of the human voice after death?
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Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world.
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Writing is one of the few professions left where you take all the responsibility for what you do. It's really dangerous and ultimately destroys you as a writer if you start thinking about responses to your work or what your audience needs.
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